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What you missed in Big Data: BI rules the agenda
The analytics ecosystem returned to its roots last week with a raft of updates from the old guard of business intelligence. It was SAP SE that appropriately fired the opening shot by pulling back the curtains on a cloud-based data processing platform promising to augment its other services with deep operational insights. The built-in modelling capabilities enable users to perform the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Old rivalries flare up
Microsoft Corp. took over the cloud spotlight last week after the torrent of news from Amazon Inc.’s infrastructure-as-a-service event subsided at last with the addition of new security functionality to its rivaling platform that promises to help protect off-premise databases more effectively. The launch represents the latest shot in a long-running competition over key corporate records that ...
Red Hat acquires Puppet Labs rival for reported $100M to bolster its DevOps chops
Red Hat Inc. added another vital piece to its hybrid cloud puzzle this morning after announcing the acquisition of Ansible Inc., one of the biggest names in open-source infrastructure automation, for a reported $100 million. The hefty price tag reflects the immense strategic value of the technology exchanging hands. The two-year-old startup’s namesake configuration management ...
Walmart open-sources its internal PaaS to stick it to Amazon
The competition between the world’s two largest retailers leaked into the public cloud this week after the announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is releasing the source code for the proprietary platform-as-a-service stack powering its e-commerce operations under a free license. The move should make quite a few providers stir in their seats, but it’s only ...
IBM rolls out free data models for Watson’s 500K-strong user base
After managing to attract some 500,000 users to the cloud-based incarnation of Watson within less than a year of hitting general availability by making its core capabilities available at no charge, IBM Corp. is now aiming for the one million mark with a new set of freemium data models to go along. The common theme ...
VMware buys Boxer to help drive its mobile security standard
The record-breaking $67 billion merger between its parent company and Dell Inc. is apparently not interrupting business as usual at VMware Inc., which kicked off the European installment of its annual customer summit this morning with the announcement of a new strategic acquisition. The target of the buy should provide attendees with plenty of material for ...
Wall Street bigwigs chuck $45 million at Bracket Computing for its cloud super-container
A year after raising $85 million from a group of high-profile venture capital firms and technology giants, Bracket Computing Inc. is adding an extra $45 million to its coffers following the completion of another investment led by an equally impressive roster of top banking institutions. The capital will help widen the adoption of its unique ...
Nutanix co-founder’s new startup launches hybrid storage platform for secondary data
A quarter after exiting stealth with $70 million in funding, Cohesity Inc., a startup established by the co-founder of one of the industry’s top converged infrastructure vendors to bring a new definition to the term, is finally going live with its namesake storage platform. The target workload is the secondary data that takes up the ...
A month after funding its top competitor, Salesforce.com invests in SteelBrick
Salesforce.com Inc. is certainly not keeping all of its eggs in one basket. Just over a month after participating in a record $108 million funding round into partner Apttus Inc., the cloud giant has bolstered the coffers of one of its biggest rivals as part of a $48 million investment announced this morning. SteelBrick Inc. ...
SentinelOne raises $25 million to reinvent the enterprise antivirus
The rise in a new-generation of threats like the cyberespionage campaign China-linked hackers are seemingly waging against top U.S. corporations has helped catapult the need to modernize data center security practices to the top of the enterprise agenda. But in focusing on the backend systems that have been the most common target of such attacks, ...
